Askam-in-furness
Askam and Ireleth is a civil parish near to Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, in North West England. Historically part of Lancashire, it originally included 2 different seaside towns with various origins as well as histories which, in recent times, have merged to turn into one continual negotiation. The populace of the civil church taken at the 2011 Census was 3,632. Ireleth has its beginnings as a mediaeval farming town clustered on the hillside ignoring the level sands of the Duddon Estuary. Askam was developed adhering to the exploration of huge amounts of iron ore near the town in the middle of the 18th century. The pair originally fell within the borders of the Thousand of Lonsdale 'north of the sands' in the historical county of Lancashire, yet adhering to local government reforms in 1974 became part of the county of Cumbria, together with the remainder of Furness. The close-by River Duddon tidewater and also bordering countryside have made the area well known for its wild animals, while the villages' subjected setting on the eastern financial institution encountering the Irish Sea have urged the establishment of wind energy generation, in the middle of regional controversy.
